New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-12
AZ regards the oourss named In the papsrs, know
take place. yet cannot OF this time tell certainly"
THE H4STH PUDDING CLUBS:BUR-
LESQUE.
A CLEVER COLLEGE EXTRAVAGANZA.

HARVARD STUDENTS MAKs JOKES AND DANCE AS
CORPS DE BALLET TO AID THE BOAT CLUB
"The Talisman, or the Maid, the Monk and the Min
sre was the rather catching title Of the clever origin
al extravaganza which the Hasty Pudding
Club OF Harvard College gave last night
before a large and friendly audience In the
Assembly Rooms Of the metropolitan Opera House
There In the cast than dozen or two maidens
of all sizes and degrees Of shapenessas they took
tcuar pains to show. whether In the chorus
Of surprised school girls or the corps DO ballot
proper in scanty apparel-a fat, red-nosed monk
with an eye to the beautiful and manner like MI VII
sons Cadeaux and mild hammered minstrel. pursued
by fate and tendency TO air his woes In public whoh
the goddess of Truth Song, happy at last py
the aid OF her magic ring. The other characters are
nofensiye enough-a wicked Marquis OF the oiu
regimes his overgrown daughter, In love Win
Flornl; mysterious French Count OF orthodox pat
term who in vain marry her, and prim old pur
tan boarding school mistress, who screams ana pio"s
the candle ont when she turns out Oh bed W
find her halls invaded by a chorus OF men, Inc
taking and the scenes short and lga s
songs well written and set to popular leht
airs Puns CONSIDERABLY omitted so the cur
tain went down each time only to give chance Tor TWO
The plot Of the huresque simple enough The first
laid before the time OF the Golden Fleece Inc
chorus have en- iu1icton from the melancholy Forime:
Then the Able Kdkaioss appears and sings song song
Primrose s'i Hail come out for an airing and dis
ervers his promised bride. Marguerite dausher OF ,ne
pounds and has squeaky voice, but the
melancholy minstrel embraces her. The Mar-
llormei presents marriage agreement signed py the
M oas ds the sayf dy Snd
begins:
FS Sssisa sy p5
says the Able. and the duel stops Norimei ana ma,.
qiere plot Al copement Thc Goddess Of Ith appears
head row. lie asks tho fairys maine and concludes he
has no use for her The elopement Is not success
away awe % %So tho Hu Abe in the act of rine
With the aections Of Mignonste stawart scholar OF
expectedy what the matter Is and express Their
Ps 1S Nee "H Them s"s . T sasp
ain blows out the light and there are general distress
The ring which the GOODIES. f7oriD at last gets
around 10 the Marquis He has to nuke good MS Grigl
G GSSc 'Ho on al i sH'' tS fspy las, %
Il was recalled again and again give si0nortd Seraph
"a -erpentine and dizzy creature IN almost nothing
The s,g,oita six feet tall, blonde wig
Following Is the cast OF the play:
Able Kakatoo, sanity individual. whose emotion,
some,imes get tho b-'to him I: oLlsT n,.
haps which arr all night In the last
Msrani. Ciolasmit,ie. noble Of the old regime
who not keep his word. but cannot help him;
Marguerite hi. daughter ZIG subject O many MARI;
count Ficardelys young noble very aas, very
nerce, aud very frenehy .;;.....:...H u, Holnsms
Miss Medusa. propuetress OF Primrose hall-prim,
starch and stately. ana easily EN- barrassed -;
Mlgnoneite coy madden demure enough, but not
q little fun OIL the sly Nv a. BROOKS
Cllluot landlord Of The Golden Fleece "a host N
The Goodies: Of Truth young person il ::snIy
Slgnor seraphita (nee Binks lighthealed. light
footed A~'o who dances her way nS az Ss si
Hnntsmen school girls. peasants. nOblea hish-DOrn
danes. etc. in great abundance
The performance given for the benefit OF tho iar-
ward University Boat Climb IL will he repeated TINS
afternoon at O'Clock and this evening at SID The list
OF patronesses is as follows: Mrs. James L. barclay
Mrs James II. Beekman Mrs George Bagden Mrs
Joseph H. Choate Mrs. George C. Clark, Mrs George g.
Dewitt IT,. Mrs Amos T. French, Mrs James j. Hlgen'
son. Mrs Richard VI. Hunt, Mrs. Feowes Morgan MIA
H. Victor NewcOmb. Mrs J. Frederick Picrson. Mrs III
lott Roosevelt Mrs L. T. sampson, Mrs i. Hopkinsoh
I'M Mira RObert Niuthrop